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Murdoch succession court drama explained

Posted by: The Conversation Global highlights

Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024

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Getting into a taxi with a stranger at 11pm could have been an awkward experience. Especially when the journey ahead was due to take one-and-a-half hours. Fortunately, when I arrived at Pisa airport last week and jumped into a car to be driven to Siena, sitting next to me was Raja Chakir, a researcher in environmental economics at Paris Saclay University and a director of research at INRAE, France’s national research institute for agriculture, food and environment.

Inevitably, once we’d got beyond, “how was your flight? I hear you were delayed”, we quickly arrived at “so, what do you do and why does it bring you to a conference of the future of Europe?”. Fortunately, The Conversation provided instant common ground. Raja is a reader, but also a very content contributor. Just a couple of months ago, she published this article with colleagues from INRAE and one of our French environment editors, Gabrielle Maréchaux.

Raja and I were both heading to the Siena Conference on the Future of Europe, hosted by the think tank Vision, along with the European University Institute and the University of Siena, and the Institute for European Policy Making at Bocconi University (a Conversation member). For more on the event, click here, and for some the best of this week’s content from across The Conversation, scroll down.

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